P2P Book of the Year 2016
1. Kevin Carson's Desktop Regulatory State
2. John Thackara's How To Thrive In the Next Economy
Brian Milani:
"Under the radar of mass media and mainstream academia, a value revolution is taking place that is promising to transform humanity’s very notions of wealth and economic development. Expressed in an explosion of both traditional academic indicators and innovative new quality-of-life and sustainability measures, this value revolution is not simply revealing previously invisible “full costs” of production, but also “redefining progress” more positively—from quantity to quality. Economically, our ways of growing and distributing food, providing & using energy, building buildings, making and exchanging clothing, etc. are being reexamined not only to reduce their negative impacts, but also to more fully express their social and ecological potentials. They are geared not simply to the sustainability of communities and ecosystems, but to their regeneration—to make economic development, as eco-architect Bill McDonough would say, “not just less bad, but good.” (http://greeneconomics.net/ValueRevolution.htm)
3. David Bollier's and Silke Helfrich's Patterns of Commoning
4. Paul Mason's PostCapitalism
5. http://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
5.b Techno-Optimism and the Way to the Age of Abundance
6. http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/whats-yours-is-mine-by-tom-slee/